• Introduction: Situating Consumers and Consumption


• Frederick F. Wherry and Ian Woodward


• Part I: Key Contemporary Themes


• 1. The Social Embeddedness of Marketing


• Stefan Schwarzkopf


• 2. The Sharing Economy


• Juliet B. Schor and Mehmet Cansoy


• 3. Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the "New" Prosumer


• George Ritzer


• 4. Consumer Culture Theory


• Eric J. Arnould and Craig J. Thompson


• 5. A Sociological Critique and Reformulation of Brands


• Thomas C. O'Guinn, Albert M. Muñiz, Jr., and Erika Paulson


• 6. Relational Work and Consumption


• Nina Bandelj and Christopher W. Gibson


• 7. Meaningful Objects and Consumption


• Sophie Woodward


• 8. Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption


• Omar Lizardo


• Part II: Organizing Consumption


• 9. Taste, Legitimacy, and the Organization of Consumption


• Jennifer Smith Maguire


• 10. Cultural Markets and Consecration


• Marc Verboord


• 11. Emotions in Consumer Studies


• Eva Illouz and Yaara Benger Alaluf


• 12. Young People and Consumption: The Changing Nature of Youth Consumption in an Era of Uncertainty and Digital Experience


• Konstantinos Theodoridis and Steven Miles


• 13. Consumption as Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist Relations


• Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry


• Part III: Consumer Transactions, Relations, and Devices


• 14. Household Finances and Credit Visibility


• Frederick F. Wherry


• 15. The Cultivation of Market Behaviors and Economic Decisions: Calculation, Qualculation, and Calqulation Revisited


• Franck Cochoy


• 16. Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking


• Zsuzsanna Vargha


• 17. Consumer Credit Surveillance


• Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas


• Part IV: Inequality and Stratification


• 18. Omnivorousness, Distinction, or Both?


• Josée Johnston, Shyon Baumann, and Merin Oleschuk


• 19. The Development of Ethnoracial Market Segments: Lessons from the US Latino Media Market


• G. Cristina Mora


• 20. Race and Consumer Inequality


• Geraldine Rosa Henderson and Kathy Zhang


• 21. Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas


• Ashley Mears


• 22. Gentrification and Urban Inequality


• Richard E. Ocejo


• 23. Branding National Identity in an Unequal World


• Melissa Aronczyk


• Part V: Practices, Performances, and Identities


• 24. Subcultures and Consumption


• John W. Schouten


• 25. Taste, Sensation, and Skill and Skill in the Sociology of Consumption


• David Wright


• 26. Food Tastes


• Jennifer A. Jordan


• 27. Gender as a Critical Perspective in Marketing Practice


• Susan Dobscha and Gry Høngsmark-Knudsen


• 28. Consumer Cities, Scenes, and Ethnic restaurants


• Daniel Silver and Terry Nichols Clark


• Part VI: Reformulating Markets


• 29. Ethical Consumption


• Keith Brown


• 30. Affluence, Anti-Consumerism, and the Politics of Consumption


• Kim Humphery


• 31. Linking Environmental Sustainability and Consumption


• Amanda M. Dewey and Dana R. Fisher

Frederick F. Wherry is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Director of the Dignity and Debt Network. He served as the 2018 president of the Social Science History Association and past chair of both the Economic Sociology and the Consumers and Consumption Sections of the American Sociological Association. He is co-author of Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship, editor of the four-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society, and the author or editor of six other books or volumes. He has served in an advisory capacity to the Boston Federal Reserve and the Lloyds Banking Group Center for Responsible Business.
Ian Woodward earned his PhD in sociology at University of Queensland, Australia. He is Professor in the Department of Marketing and Management at University of Southern Denmark. A cultural sociologist, he has written extensively about consumption and material cultures, and everyday cosmopolitan ethics. His authored and co-authored books include The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism (2009), Understanding Material Culture (2007), Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age (2015), and Labels: Making Independent Music (2019).

The Oxford Handbook of Consumption examines the most pressing questions addressed by consumption studies scholars today. The volume counteracts the tendency towards disciplinary myopia as it engages scholars from around the world drawing on sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and consumption studies. The volume's thirty-one chapters are organized around six themes, facilitating cross-disciplinary exploration.